Professional development for teachers
Here you’ll find a wide range of free, self-access training and resources designed to help you build the skills and knowledge you need as an English teacher.
All TeachingEnglish professional development resources are aligned with the British Council Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Framework for teachers, to help you plan your learning and develop the areas most relevant to your professional growth.
You can explore resources in a way that suits your goals:
- by professional practices – to focus on specific areas of teaching where you want to deepen your skills and expertise
- by professional development levels – to find resources matched to your training and experience and see how they can help you progress within each area.
Each resource includes a timer icon to show how much time you’ll need, helping you plan your learning effectively.
Paralinguistics
Paralinguistics are the aspects of spoken communication that do not involve words.
Paraphrasing
Paraphrasing is finding another way to say something when you don’t know how to say it.
Participles
Participles are a verb form used in passive sentences and to form perfect and progressive aspect.
Particle
A particle is a word that has a grammatical function but does not fit into the main parts of speech (i.e. noun, verb, adverb).
Parts of speech
Parts of speech describe the categories that words are assigned to according to what grammatical or lexical function they have.
Passive vocabulary
A learner’s passive vocabulary is the words that they understand but don’t use yet.
Knowing the subject
Pedagogic grammar
Discover what a pedagogic grammar is and how you can use it in the classroom.
Peer correction
Peer correction is a classroom technique where learners correct each other, rather than the teacher doing this.
Pejorative
A pejorative is a word or phrase that is used to express contempt.
Pelmanism
In ELT Pelmanism refers to any activity that learners have to complete by memorising objects.